Newcastle United vs Leicester City Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 22nd May 2023
Bookmakers favour Newcastle United to win against Leicester City in their next Premier League match. This takes place on Monday with the hosts in decent form, and a win seems quite likely. Naturally, Leicester City will put up a fight at the St James' Park, though.
Sitting two places behind the top of the table, Newcastle United claimed 69 points after 36 rounds. Meanwhile, Leicester City amassed 30 points and rank as number 19 in the Premier League at the moment.
Top side Newcastle United will be hoping to inflict more misery on lowly placed Leicester City on Monday. The hosts should simply be able to bring far too much to the table for the visitors to have any say this coming Monday.
Newcastle United scored 28 goals, conceded 13 and claimed one clean sheet in their last ten outings.
Leicester City managed a bearable 12 goals from their past ten games, creating an average of 1.2 goals per game. They conceded 21 goals in total, and while claiming zero clean sheets, they conceded 2.1 goals an average per game.
The Magpies ended up winning 0-3 in the most recent meeting between these two rivals. Rest assured they have a similar outcome in mind at St James' Park.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Prediction
Newcastle United Form
Newcastle United have seen it all in their last three matches, which gave them four points. First, they went down 0-2 against Arsenal, before picking up a 2-2 draw against Leeds. Their latest match brought a 4-1 win in their encounter with Brighton. Newcastle United won five of their last six Premier League matches at St James' Park, scoring 17 and conceding six along the way. They lost once but didn't draw a single match.
Newcastle United were dreaming of qualifying for Europe, but after a fantastic campaign, they could even finish the season on the podium.
Leicester City Form
In their previous three games, Leicester City drew 2-2 with Everton, then lost 5-3 against Fulham and 0-3 against Liverpool. Leicester City didn't manage a single away win in their last six Premier League matches, but managed two draws, while suffering four defeats. They conceded 13 and scored seven goals themselves.
Newcastle United targeted a place inside the top six before the Premier League season. However, ranked inside the top three, they are dreaming of medals after a great campaign.
They usually throw caution to the wind, when clashing with each other, and with both Newcastle United and Leicester City scoring freely over the past weeks, we expect a highly entertaining match.
Newcastle United scored 33 goals and conceded 12 in their last 18 games against teams from the bottom half of the Premier League table. They collected 38 points and ten victories. Leicester City claimed zero wins and one points in their last 11 games against teams from the top six. They scored eight times in these matches, but also conceded 28 goals. Newcastle United enjoy a record of 19 wins, 12 draws and five defeats in the Premier League this season. Leicester City are looking at eight wins, six draws and 22 defeats in the Premier League.
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Newcastle United vs Leicester City Stats
- Newcastle have not lost 25 of the last 27 home matches
- Newcastle have conceded in 16 of the last 17 matches
- In 12 of the last 14 Newcastle home matches the sum of goals was under 3.5
- In 9 of the last 11 Newcastle matches the sum of goals was over 2.5
- In 6 of the last 8 matches Newcastle played, both teams scored
- Leicester have conceded in the last 17 matches in a row
- Leicester have not won 14 of the last 15 matches
- In 9 of the last 11 matches Leicester played, both teams scored
- In the last 5 away matches in a row Leicester played, both teams scored
- Leicester have not won the last 7 away matches in a row
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Squads
Newcastle United Squad
The 45-year-old Howe will select the starting eleven against Leicester City from this squad. The statistics represent goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season:
Loris Karius (0/0), Mark Gillespie (0/0), Martin Dubravka (0/1), Nick Pope (0/36), Daniel Burn (1/36), Emil Krafth (0/0), Fabian Schaer (1/34), Harrison Ashby (0/0), Jamaal Lascelles (0/7), Jamal Lewis (0/1), Javier Manquillo (0/4), Kieran Trippier (1/36), Matt Targett (0/16), Paul Dummett (0/0), Sven Botman (0/34), Bruno Guimaraes (4/30), Elliot Anderson (0/20), Jacob Murphy (4/34), Joseph Willock (3/35), Matt Ritchie (0/7), Matthew Longstaff (0/0), Miguel Almiron (11/32), Ryan Fraser (0/8), Sean Longstaff (1/32), Alexander Isak (10/20), Allan Saint-Maximin (1/23), Anthony Gordon (3/30), Callum Wilson (18/29), Joelinton (6/32).
Leicester City Squad
Here is the full squad of the away team. The 52 year-old Leicester City manager Smith will select his starting XI from these players:
Alex Smithies (0/0), Daniel Iversen (0/10), Danny Ward (0/26), Caglar Soyuncu (0/0), Daniel Amartey (0/20), Harry Souttar (0/11), James Justin (0/14), Jannik Vestergaard (0/0), Jonny Evans (0/11), Luke Thomas (0/15), Ricardo Pereira (1/9), Ryan Bertrand (0/0), Victor Kristiansen (0/12), Wout Faes (0/29), Boubakary Soumare (0/24), Dennis Praet (1/22), Harvey Barnes (12/32), James Maddison (10/28), Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (2/30), Nampalys Mendy (1/17), Timothy Castagne (2/35), Wilfred Ndidi (0/26), Youri Tielemans (3/29), Jamie Vardy (3/35), Kelechi Iheanacho (5/26), Patson Daka (4/29), Tete (1/13).
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Team News
At the time of writing, Newcastle United have three players on their injured and absent list as they prepare to meet Leicester City on Monday.
Allan Saint-Maximin, Matt Targett and Emil Krafth nurses various injuries and won't take part for Newcastle United against Leicester City at St James' Park.
Leicester City could have up to eight players on the injured and absent players for their match on Monday atSt James' Park
Names like Boubakary Soumare, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Dennis Praet, Jonny Evans, James Maddison, James Justin, Ricardo Pereira and Ryan Bertrand most likely won't be deemed fit enough to play Newcastle United.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Lineups
Newcastle United vs Leicester City H2H
The last time these two teams faced off against each other, Newcastle came away as 0-3 winners. No doubt they are planning a similar outcome on Monday. Newcastle United tend to have the upper hand against Leicester City, grabbing all three points five times in ten matches. The bookies best betting odds on a home win are at 2/5.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Results
Both teams found the back of the net four times in the past ten matches between home side Newcastle United and Leicester City. Best priced odds on BTTS with the bookies are at 3/4.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City Betting Tips
Scoring 18 goals during a Premier League campaign is just the sort of form, every club adores in a player. Callum Wilson is out to extend his current momentum, and the upcoming game should be a good opportunity to add another goal to his name. Picking Callum Wilson to score seems like a no-brainer currently.
St James' Park saw seven wins for Newcastle United in their last 10 here across all tournaments. They also drew one and lost two, while Leicester City won two of their 10 most recent outings on their travels, whilst drawing two and losing six. Both teams have been quite terrible at keeping their opponents at bay in recent matches. While Newcastle United managed to keep a clean sheet in two of the games at St James' Park, Leicester City kept their opponent from scoring in one of their last 10 away games.
There were over two goals eight times in ten encounters most recent outings between Leicester City and Newcastle United, with the last Newcastle United averaging 1.3 goals a game. Leicester City scored an average of two goals, while both teams to score came out four times over the same period. Over 2.5 goals came out eight times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Newcastle United, who scored an average of 2.8 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals happened in seven of the last ten games for Leicester City, who scored 1.2 times on average in those matches.